Read-a-Book
Library & Press · Est. 2011
Vol. XIV
A quieter way
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The Silent Cartographer
by Edward Halloway
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"We read to know we are not alone. Read-a-Book has, very quietly, become the place I go when I want to remember that."
— The Paris Quarterly
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